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 Fonts for Printing, Not Info
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   Texinfo provides four font commands that specify font changes in the
 printed manual but have no effect in the Info file.  `@i' requests
 italic font (in some versions of TeX, a slanted font is used), `@b'
 requests bold face, `@t' requests the fixed-width, typewriter-style
 font used by `@code', and `@r' requests a roman font, which is the
 usual font in which text is printed.  All four commands apply to an
 argument that follows, surrounded by braces.
 
   Only the `@r' command has much use: in example programs, you can use
 the `@r' command to convert code comments from the fixed-width font to
 a roman font.  This looks better in printed output.
 
   For example,
 
      @lisp
      (+ 2 2)    ; @r{Add two plus two.}
      @end lisp
 
 produces
 
      (+ 2 2)    ; Add two plus two.
 
   If possible, you should avoid using the other three font commands.  If
 you need to use one, it probably indicates a gap in the Texinfo
 language.
 

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